Message from the exterior / Mark Ruwedel.

Photographer
Ruwedel, Mark, 1954- [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • [London] : MACK, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

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    Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert's harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses--small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory. The first section, 'Desert Houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section "Dusk" presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolation.
    Notes
    Also published in a limited edition of 150 copies consisting of 2 hardback volumes, each with a tipped in image, each signed and numbered, and issued in a slipcase; includes a signed and numbered gravure print. Volume 1: 120 pages, 73 tritone plates; volume 2: 56 pages, 26 tritone plates.
    ISBN
    • 1910164461
    • 9781910164464
    OCLC
    953598918
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